The andromeda_fans livejournal community is kicking off their Valentine’s Day exchange:

What is is it?

A challenge/exchange open to all fannish creators: writers, vidders, icon-makers, fan artists, podficcers, meta-picspammers, squee-ers, acrobats and Nietzscheans. Named in honor of Beka Valentine, but open to all characters of Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda series.

How does it work?

Sign-ups open today, January 11th and will close on Saturday, January 18th.

So I haven’t finished watching Season 1 on BluRay yet, but I wanted to post some comparison pictures for those that are thinking of buying.

The BluRay release appears to be an upscale, so the quality isn’t actually an improvement. A little disappointing, because there’s almost nothing as exciting as the crispness of a scifi movie or series given a proper bluray treatment (action scenes, yay!). No sub-titles either.

But the real reason you’re here is the images, so without further ado here are a selection of images from episode 01: